Monster Ep 66 - Okaeri (Welcome Back)

The man was a Czechoslovakian of German descent and the eldest son of a family which remained in Bohemia after World War II. He was a graduate of the Military Office Academy who was expected to become an elite in the running of the government. The woman was the only daughter of a school teacher in Moravia who was blessed with beauty, blonde hair and blue eyes. She was from Brno University and studied genetic engineering.

They met each other in a cafe at Prague and fell in love with each other soon. When the woman became pregnant, the man confessed to her that his approaching of her was part of a mission. Race, intelligence, skeletal structure, motor skills...an experiment conducted to produce children among selected couples. The man and woman were just one of the couples in this experiment. However, the man had no wish to continue with this mission and tried to run away with the woman. Unfortunately, they were caught by the people conducting this experiment where the man went missing and the woman was in captive while awaiting the birth of her twin children. No matter how many times the woman asked to see the man, she was told that the man had gone on another mission but she knew that he was no longer living in this world. The woman soon realised that a man i.e. Bonaparta who came to sketch pictures of her was the mastermind behind the experiment. She told him that even if she died, her children will take revenge on him for what he had done to them.

When it was time for the woman to give birth, she made her escape while squeezing through the narrow ventilation shaft and bearing with the excruciating pain. However, she collapsed near the gate which rendered her effort a failure. After giving birth, the woman insisted on giving names to her children but Bonaparta kept telling her that names were not needed for the twins...

That was the story of Johan and Nina's parents as related by Capek to Nina. He reveals that Johan asked him about Bonaparta's whereabouts which makes her shocked to know that Bonaparta is still alive. Capek's men drives Nina to the ruins of a old mansion where Johan is said to be at.

At the same time, Christof who was shot by Tenma when he tried to kill Eva, is bleading furiously as Tenma tries to get him to reveal Johan's whereabouts. However, Christof refuses to say anything which leads Tenma to get Eva to call the police for an ambulance since Christof's life will be in danger if he continues to bleed. After Eva leaves the car, Christof then tells Tenma where Johan is. As such, Tenma decides to look for Johan alone without waiting for Eva as he doesn't want her to get involved in this matter again.

Nina enters the mansion alone and finally sees Johan who is standing on the rooftop. This results in Nina remembering how she ran away from the Mansion of the Red Roses and returned home to find Johan dressed as a girl. The two of them then set fire to their old apartment at the Three Frogs before running away. The twins met an elderly couple who gave them food and had the intention of adopting them. Unknown to Nina, Johan had killed the couple and told Nina to go somewhere with him as he had a good plan...

However, Johan relates the account of the matter from his perspective as if he was the one who had been at the Mansion of the Red Roses. Nina tells him that she knows about his killing of the people who had been kind to them. Meanwhile, Tenma is rushing to the mansion's ruins after hearing about this from Christof. Nina states that she will end the whole matter by killing Johan and herself but this leads Johan to wonder what exactly is the end and questions Nina about it. Nina then says that she will tell him something which is truly terrifying...

The revelation of Johan and Nina's parents is the highlight of this issue besides the twins' reunion after a long time. The explanation sheds more light on how their parents came together and what led to the twins' birth. However, is Johan's real motive just to take revenge on Bonaparta? If so, why would he go through so much trouble to do so many seemingly-unrelated things to achieve his aim? And it does seem like either Johan or Nina may have remembered something wrongly. Otherwise, why would the two of them claim to have been brought to the Mansion of Red Roses when the story so far has pointed to Nina being the one who went there? Well, Nina's account of a terrifying story in the next episode should provide more answers to this question.